> The issue of using some kind of distributed version control has come up > a few times in the past few weeks. I've finally decided to start playing > around with this a bit. I decided to create an experimental mercurial > (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/) repository.
to make things easier to compare i added short start git guide to wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/Git jfyi to create your own repo of trunk without history takes some 80 mb, subtract 30 if you clone it localy from another branch using hardlinks for git internals. pavel